Recently Tas TAFE in Hobart held some conversation pods encouraging locals to interact and chat with newly arrived migrants to Tasmania.

Using a lot of hand signals and pointing to places on maps the recent arrives to Australia make conversation and among them is Arop Majok from Sudan.

Mr Majok explains racism isn't something restricted to Australia.

"I know it's everywhere even in my country you can come and some people are going to be nasty to you and be racist to you because they don't know much about you," he says.

The tall young African explains times where he's been yelled at on the bus, being told to 'go back to your country' which he says he has learned to cope with.

"When those kinds of things happen I just walk away and say he doesn't know anything about me," he says.

The conversation pods were designed to open up communication between locals and migrants and according to Mr Majok these are all positive steps.

"Actually it makes me feel great because they get to know more about me. It makes me feel comfortable to communicate, it also helps to me build relations around and to meet new people and have friends," he says.

Another important aspect that Mr Majok mentions is talking about himself, and keeping his own memory fresh.

"It reminds me of my story and they keep it always so I don't get to forget it because I want to remember it. Sometimes I don't want to remember, sometimes I want to remember and let people know," he says.

Cameron Lowe is an 18 year-old Hobart student and he's been engaging with the migrants for several hours, it's clearly had an impact on him.

"Education is something serious over here. We take for granted so much but they want it so much more than us so it makes you think, I'm going to learn a lot more as well just like they are," he says.

The very shy and under confident Aster Kahsay from Ethiopia says she feels sorry for people when they are racist towards her.